Here he confronts Dormammu and manages to create an infinite loop, Strange gets killed in various ways but is always reset. Strange then thinks of something and flies off into the heart of the Dormammu nebula. Kaecilius recovers and manages to stun Strange. They gate over but the Hong Kong Sanctum has been overrun and Dormammu is growing as a nebula from the building, Strange uses Agamotto to partially reverse the process. She accepts this is her end and suggests Strange can take over.īack in the New York centre Strange and Mordo realize Hong Kong is next on Kaecilius' list. Strange follows the Ancient One's spirit in his astral form and they talk overlooking New York City. Strange once again goes to Christine's Hospital but it is too late. The Ancient One returns to help but she falls and is mortally wounded. Kaecilius returns with more zealots, Strange creates a shell to contain the fight and they go out into the street, Kaecilius uses his powers to shape shift the City and disorient Strange. They are impressed the "Cloak of Levitation" magic cape has chosen him. The Ancient One also comes and suggests Strange take over the New York Sanctum, he refuses. Kaecilius has escaped and Mordo joins Strange in New York. Sewn up and recovering, he tells Christine he must return and goes back through the gate. Meanwhile, Strange separates his astral body and continues to fight the zealot, finally killing him. He barely manages to get on a table as Christine hooks him to a defibrillator and removes a sliver from his heart. Strange manages to open a gate and stagger into Christine's hospital cleaner's pantry. Strange and Kaecilius have a talk about the Ancient One and immortality, but as Strange lets down his guard the other zealot revives and stabs him. The cloak helps him subdue one zealot and restrain Kaecilius. He gets rid of two zealots by using the gates and a burgundy cloak that seems to have some intelligence wraps itself around him. Strange is able to develop fighting skills on the fly. Kaecilius and his group then attack the New York sanctum. The building is deserted as he wanders the floors looking at various artifacts. They attack London and when Strange and Mordo try to assist Strange is sent to the New York centre.
Kaecilius finally deciphers the page and his group attacks the London office, a plain building with a logo window. There are three sanctums, in London, New York and Hong Kong where the group watches out for the world. Mordo tells him it is forbidden to use time spells as it can cause unforeseen problems.
On his own, Strange visits the library, he quickly learns how to use a time-shifting pendant, Agamotto, which also enables him to see the missing page from the book. Strange is upset and says he hasn't come to join their group, only to cure his hands. A former student, Kaecilius, has stolen a page from a secret book and escaped with three zealots, there is worry he will decipher the page and call in Dormammu from across the universe to take over the world.
While training, Mordo shows him a magic stick, and says the magic tool must choose him.
He learns the temple is part of a secret group saving the world from other dimension, multiuniverse enemies. He begins training and slowly learns to open gates to jump across the world. She knows all about him and introduces himself to a new reality. He is noticed and followed, Mordo saves him from muggers and takes him to his temple Kamar-Taj. Strange makes his way to Nepal and wanders the streets of Kathmandu. Strange finds Pangborn playing basketball and the man tells him he found the cure in Kathmandu.
He then hears about a man Jonathan Pangborn who recovered from a full cervical half-body paralysis. Feeling sorry for himself, Strange breaks up with Christine. Slowly recovering, his hands remain stiff and shaky, he can no longer work as a neurosurgeon. He is airlifted back to his hospital and Christine is there when he awakes, badly hurt, his hands have had to be rebuilt. Distracted, he crashes and the car plunges into the river. He calls an assistant to consider about next patients, he only wants difficult interesting cases. Speeding out of his condo in his Lamborghini Huracan, Strange heads north. She turns down his request to join him that evening. He and Christine joke about their on again off again relationship.
He goes to the ER Surgery and quickly does a manual extraction with forceps, showing his delicate hand control. Christine Palmer rushes in to show an x-ray of a patient with a bullet in the brain. Steven Strange is cool and confident as he performs a delicate brain surgery.